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Hi, I'm Vamsi Penmetsa πŸ‘‹

Curious Human | Lead DevOps Engineer

Deploying LLMs as a Service on Azure AKS for LSEG Γ— Microsoft UK Partnership πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

EPAM AI Ambassador ✨ | M365 Copilot Champion | 150+ Technical Interviews

Vamsi Penmetsa
πŸ“ Warsaw, Poland

About Me

The Professional Side πŸ‘”

I'm a Lead DevOps Engineer deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) as a service on Azure AKS and PaaS for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and its UK financial clients.

Part of the high-profile LSEG Γ— Microsoft UK Partnership 🀝

  • 7 Active Azure Certifications πŸ†
  • 2 EPAM AI Certifications πŸ€–
  • Microsoft M365 Copilot Champion ✨
  • EPAM AI Ambassador 🎯

The Journey 🌟

Successfully navigated from Manual Tester β†’ Automation Engineer β†’ DevOps β†’ SRE β†’ Platform Engineer β†’ Cloud Engineer

Worked with industry leaders: IMF, WTW, Wolters Kluwer, Corteva, UBS Swiss, Microsoft

Expertise in Azure DevOps, AKS, SRE, Terraform, AI/ML infrastructure with architecture design & team management using ITIL v4, Scrum, Agile

🌍 Thriving in multicultural environments & distributed teams

My Journey

May 2025 - Present

AI Ambassador & Copilot Champion

@ EPAM Poland

Promoting Microsoft Copilot, conducting workshops, and driving AI adoption.

AI Workshops
Apr 2023 - Present

Lead Systems Engineer

@ EPAM Systems

πŸš€ LLM Deployment for LSEG Γ— Microsoft

  • Leading DevOps for LLM deployment on Azure AKS & PaaS
  • Designing scalable infrastructure for model hosting
  • Ensuring compliance & proactive stakeholder communication

πŸ›‘οΈ Lead SRE at IMF iData

  • Implemented Azure & ITIL v4 for reliability
  • Pioneered automation for incident response
  • Mentored junior engineers, improved on-call processes
Azure AKS LLM SRE
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023

Senior Systems Engineer

@ EPAM Systems

PaaS infrastructure for Corteva. Cloud migration for UBS Switzerland.

Apr 2022 - July 2022

Systems Engineer

@ EPAM Systems

Octopus Deploy automation, KICS security scanning, Kubernetes management.

Dec 2020 - Mar 2022

Digital Marketing & Automation

@ ITVersity

Managed 55K+ sub YouTube channel. Python automation for metadata.

Apr 2020 - Jan 2022

Systems Engineer

@ TCS

Microsoft Kaizala pipelines. Automation Engineer using Python & Appium.

Skills & Tools

Cloud

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • AKS

IaC

  • Terraform
  • Bicep
  • ARM

Scripting

  • Python
  • PowerShell
  • Bash

AI/ML

  • LLM Ops
  • Copilot
  • Capacity Planning

Certifications

☁️ Azure (7 Active)

  • Solutions Architect Expert
  • DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Azure Administrator
  • AZ-900 Fundamentals

πŸ€– AI & Other

  • 2 EPAM AI Certifications
  • Terraform Associate
  • Engineering Management Essentials
  • Complete SQL Bootcamp

Education

Vishnu Institute of Technology

Bachelor's in Information Technology

πŸ† Honors:

On the Spot Award

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Success Story From Self-Doubt to Success

"Hi Vamsi! I am writing back to tell you that I successfully passed last technical interview. Thank you for your recommendation to try to behave as I am already middle, even if I am not feeling like one. I am sure there’s a lot of work ahead, but I am so excited and grateful! Thank you!"

Mariia

Aspiring DevOps Engineer

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